Дослідження художньо-творчої діяльності як засобу формування гуманістичної культури студентів

Abstract

The article considers artistic and creative activity as an important tool of students’ humanistic culture formation. It is noted that artistic and creative student activity is determined by subjects’ specifics and the conditions in which they are realized. Considerable emphasis is also placed on understanding artistic and creative activities as necessary conditions that effects efficiency of the training process which promotes development of students’ motivation for learning, emotional and figurative spheres of their personalities, creative potential, humanistic culture. Humanistic culture is defined as integral personal education of the student in a set of humanistic norms, values, ways of behavior adopted in society. It is substantiated that the formation of humanistic culture is a complex, step-by-step process of personality development of a future specialist. It turned out that artistic and creative activity is a social process associated with spiritual and practical activities of the youth which encourages them to transform the content of the activity and its humanistic orientation in emotional and figurative forms, provides aesthetic perception of the reality; it provides implementation of culturological function and is manifested in their ability to create culture; it is a socio-psychological phenomenon that determines the emotional and aesthetic activity of the youth. It is established that artistic and creative activity develops a students’ complex ability to create products of artistic and creative activities (ability to artistically and figuratively perceive the world, which combines objects and subjects and attitude to them; ability to create artistic reality: visual, subject-imitation that evoke empathy and compassion of the subject). Emphasis is placed on problem-based learning as one of the most effective methods to manifest intellectual and creative abilities of students, creativeness in independent activity, confidence and ability to work creatively. It is determined that effective means of forming a humanistic student culture of the youth is an imitation (modeling) technology associated with modeling of situations of future professional activity in educational process.